A Practical Climbing Robot for Steel Bridge Inspection

Son T. Nguyen,Anh Q. Pham,Cadence Motley,Hung M. La,Son T. Nguyen,Anh Q. Pham,Cadence Motley,Hung M. La

The advanced robotic and automation (ARA) lab has developed and successfully implemented a design inspired by many of the various cutting edge steel inspection robots to date. The combination of these robots concepts into a unified design came with its own set of challenges since the parameters for these features sometimes conflicted. An extensive amount of design and analysis work was performed b...